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I know that back in Burning Crusade, you could purchase some jewels from NPC's (in Honor Hold, for example) - of course, those were entry-level jewelry, because JC's would do the hard work. That was also true in Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm.
But I can't find anything like that in Mists of Pandaria.
Is there any Vendor (wether be with Gold, Honor, or Valor points) that sells gems for equipment? If so, where?

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SBCL Numeric Performance Today #
hacking, November 16th 2011
I've been working on and off on a new microbenchmark tool — primarily for SBCL, but usable for other implementations as well. Last night I finally got around to teaching it how to generate pretty pictures, using Google Visualization API, and wrote a number of microbenchmarks that show the variety of numeric performance in SBCL.
Here it is: Performance of addition variants in SBCL 184.108.40.206 The higher the bar, the better the performance — the numbers are million iterations of the benchmark per second of run-time.
Each benchmark does a roughly comparable task: adds two numbers. What varies is what the types of the numbers are, and how much the compiler knows about the situation. (In some benchmarks there may be an extra comparison or so per iteration to keep the compiler from getting and flushing out the code as effectless.) There are basically four classes of performance:
- Superb: Modular inline integer arithmetic. This is performance essentially identical with what you'd expect from C or ASM.
- Good: Compiler knows the types, the argument types are inline-arithmetic-friendly, the result type is not in doubt (addition of two fixnums can be a bignum), and the function doing the addition is inlined at the site where the results are unboxed and the result is used.
- Decent: Compiler knows the types, the types are inline-arithmetic-friendly and have an immediate representation, but the function doing the addition is out of line.
- Bad Generic arithmetic on anything else but fixnums small enough for the result to be a fixnum is just not that great.
What should be of interest to anyone optimizing floating point performance is that type-checking doesn't really cost anything measurable most of the time. All of those benchmarks do full type typechecks except for double-unsafe-sans-result+, and the gain over the safe variant is minuscule.
What matters is that you generate inline arithmetic so that your floating points don't get boxed. On x86-64 SBCL has immediate single-floats, so occastional boxing isn't quite as disastrous (compare single+ and double+), but getting rid of the boxed representations completely is a huge win — just compare single+ to complex-double-inline+.
Postscript: I know not everyone reading this will be clear on unboxed, boxed, immediate, non-immediate, etc. My apologies. I will try to remedy the situation and write about the different representations and how and why they matter at a later date.
Post-Postscript: I will be publishing the benchmark tool once it settles down, and once I have a chance to test-drive it with something besides SBCL. Could be a while, though. If you urgently need it, get in tough and we'll arrange something.


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Katherine Kersten's column in the Aug. 27 Sunday Strib, Riots show that the West needs religion, got my attention. I've been to the UK a few times in recent years and have seen the evidence of the unraveling of Britain's social fabric—the pervasiveness of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in even the most rural areas being one example.
She references an article by Britain's chief rabbi, Jonathon Sacks, in this WSJ essay, Reversing the Decay of London Undone.
This was the bursting of a dam of potential trouble that has been building for years. The collapse of families and communities leaves in its wake unsocialized young people, deprived of parental care, who on average—and yes, there are exceptions—do worse than their peers at school, are more susceptible to drug and alcohol abuse, less likely to find stable employment and more likely to land up in jail.
The truth is, it is not their fault. They are the victims of the tsunami of wishful thinking that washed across the West saying that you can have sex without the responsibility of marriage, children without the responsibility of parenthood, social order without the responsibility of citizenship, liberty without the responsibility of morality and self-esteem without the responsibility of work and earned achievement.
David Brooks addressed this in a column last spring titled Creed or Chaos:
But religion itself can do enormous good as long as people take religious teaching metaphorically and not literally; as long as people understand that all religions ultimately preach love and service underneath their superficial particulars; as long as people practice their faiths open-mindedly and are tolerant of different beliefs.
Brooks' Sept. 12 column, If It Feels Right…, sounds the alarm about America's youth:
What's disheartening is how bad they are at thinking and talking about moral issues. The interviewers asked open-ended questions about right and wrong, moral dilemmas and the meaning of life. In the rambling answers, which Smith and company recount in a new book, "Lost in Transition," you see the young people groping to say anything sensible on these matters. But they just don't have the categories or vocabulary to do so…
Smith and company are stunned, for example, that the interviewees were so completely untroubled by rabid consumerism…
In most times and in most places, the group was seen to be the essential moral unit. A shared religion defined rules and practices. Cultures structured people's imaginations and imposed moral disciplines. But now more people are led to assume that the free-floating individual is the essential moral unit. Morality was once revealed, inherited and shared, but now it's thought of as something that emerges in the privacy of your own heart.
I grew up Catholic, spent 7 years in the seminary, and still have fond feelings for the Catholic Church, especially when I think of how many elements of Catholic social teaching have impacted my life in positive ways. Still, I disagree with Kersten's asserting that religion and active church participation are the only ways to address this problem of a decaying social fabric.
But as an atheist and a frequent critic of some religious practices, let me clear: I do think that the leaders and members of Northfield's faith community, including Rejoice! Church, are doing "enormous good" in our community for the ways in which they help to strengthen our social fabric and teach moral values.


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In the March 2011 issue of Transmission & Distribution World, American Electric Power's Emeka Okafor described how the utility has deployed battery energy storage across its distribution system. The potential benefits of implementing battery energy storage systems (BESS) at the substation were described as improving reliability both through supporting aging electrical infrastructure and providing backup power for customers. The BESS delivers these benefits through peak shaving and islanding.
Peak shaving is a function that allows the battery to discharge at times of high demand, thus reducing the peak load through the system and consequent stress on substation components. In addition to potentially extending the life of an asset, this function can defer the need for capital upgrades required to meet increasing demand. Islanding allows the battery to supply power to a portion of the distribution network when disconnected from the main grid because of a planned or unplanned outage. In this state, the battery is effectively acting as a backup power source.
In January 2010, BC Hydro initiated a project in partnership with Natural Resources Canada to install BESS on its distribution system in Golden, British Columbia, Canada, in the hopes of achieving both of these benefits.
Business Case
The two mountain communities of Golden and Field, in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia, have had significant reliability issues in the past.
Both towns receive power from the Golden substation, which uses four radial distribution feeders to supply the town of Golden and surrounding areas. In early 2010, the load forecast for the area predicted substation capacity would be exceeded by the winter peak of 2013-2014. The town of Field, located approximately 50 km (31 miles) to the east of Golden, is supplied by a single 25-kV feeder from Golden. This distribution line experiences frequent and prolonged outages because of the heavily forested environment and cold, snowy conditions of Yoho National Park, in which the town of Field is located. The feeder does not always follow the road, and the rugged terrain makes it especially difficult for crews to locate faults and restore power.
To provide both peak-shaving functionality at Golden and backup power to Field, BC Hydro's team reviewed several alternatives including battery storage and diesel generation. The financial cost of deploying battery storage was weighed against the cost of diesel generation at both sites. Although the cleaner battery option was preferred, diesel generation was significantly cheaper. It was only with a matching funds award from the Canadian government's Clean Energy Fund that a business case could be made for battery storage.
In the business case, the utility is expected to derive benefits from the batteries over a 15-year life cycle and defer the cost of transformer upgrades at the substation for two years. BC Hydro and the Canadian government had three main
- Prove the business case
- Gain knowledge in the deployment of battery energy storage for peak shaving and islanding (for backup power)
- Understand the additional challenges of the Canadian climate and environment.
Early on, the BC Hydro team determined 2 MW of storage was required to mitigate the capacity risk at Golden substation. In locating 1 MW at Field and implementing an islanding scheme, BC Hydro expects to reduce the number of extended outages for the community by up to 80%.
The Start
As a crown corporation owned by the provincial government of British Columbia, BC Hydro is required to procure equipment and services through a competitive bidding process. The utility enlisted the help of Quanta Technology to develop requests for proposals for both the battery and systems integrator. Developing the selection criteria for the battery technology required meeting the reliability requirements of the organization. As a result, only the sodium-sulfur (NaS) battery technology, supplied by NGK Insulators, could demonstrate a proven track record with the battery size and function that BC Hydro required.
The utility chose S&C Electric as the systems integrator because it has successfully installed more than 12 MW of sodium-sulfur BESS. In posting separate requests for proposals for the batteries and system integrator, BC Hydro hoped to make the project open to a larger number of proponents; however, in retrospect, a single vendor proposal and contract would have been simpler to manage.
The biggest hurdles to completing the battery and system integrator contracts proved to be the standards definitions, generally boilerplate to the utility, with which the new technologies did not necessarily comply. For example, BC Hydro did not have a standard for a storage management system (SMS), so the utility included the Canadian Standards Association standard for small low-voltage inverters it had adopted. At the time, the inverter in S&C Electric's PureWave SMS had not been certified to that standard so a waiver was required, although certification has since been achieved in a recent application in Canada.
Not having a full understanding of the requirements put the procurement team in the unusual position of looking to the proponent for guidance on the contract language while still protecting the utility's interests. Completing negotiations for both contracts required all parties to proceed to the first level of design with a degree of cooperation and openness not typically seen during a standard procurement process.
Canadian Winters
The location, environment and climatic conditions in British Columbia's East Kootenay region presented the team with a unique design challenge. Initial plans called for the NaS batteries to be installed in external weatherproof enclosures suitable for ambient temperatures as low as -40°C (-40°F). However, through a more detailed study of the climate in the proposed locations, potential temperatures of -50°C (-58°C) were considered possible. A revised plan for two climate-controlled buildings with the batteries in racks proved to be prohibitively expensive and almost ended the project before it had even started.
A third option, proposed by the systems integrator, S&C Electric, was to use the external battery enclosures installed inside prefabricated buildings. This solution would provide protection from snow and sufficient insulation for the internal temperatures to never to drop below -40°C. In addition, NGK modified the design of the battery module enclosures so all electronic components would be confined to one end of the installation where the ambient temperature could be further controlled. This revised design required input and cooperation from all stakeholders. Support from Parks Canada and Natural Resources Canada was invaluable to being able to fast-track an agreement to the process.
For automated function and monitoring of the battery systems, telecommunications was required at both the Golden and Field sites back to BC Hydro operations, between the sites and the Golden substation, and between the Field site and the point of islanding.
In 2011, the communication options for the Field battery located in Yoho National Park were limited by available providers, terrain, climate and vegetation. Landline services were limited, there was no cellular infrastructure and the satellite links were not guaranteed because of steep valleys and heavy precipitation. Local wireless communication was difficult given the distances and pathway of the distribution lines through densely forested parkland. The challenge was to find an economic solution with acceptable reliability.
After much deliberation, the long-haul communication from the Field battery site to the Golden substation and back to BC Hydro operations would be provided by C-band satellite, and the short-haul communications, between the islanding disconnect point and the battery site, would be provided by a 900-MHz SpeedNet radio. The design of the radio portion required a fiber section from the site through dense forest to the open road and then multiple radio hops on two new poles to find a reliable signal path. Since the time of the original design, cellular communication has been established in Field and this option is now used by S&C and NGK to monitor their systems remotely.
Each BESS consists of the NaS battery modules and battery management system, SMS (including the inverter and master control unit), transformer and isolation switches. For the Field system, an IntelliRupter PulseCloser provides the intelligence and point of isolation required for the islanding operation. A small propane generator is required for backup station
The islanding function of the Field battery is enabled by IntelliTeam software running on the IntelliRupter and SMS to isolate the load and reroute the power supply. In the event of a fault between the Golden substation and the IntelliRupter, the upstream feeder protection opens to clear the fault and the SMS anti-islanding protection trips the battery unit off-line. The IntelliRupter detects a lack of upstream voltage, waits a preset amount of time to confirm the fault is permanent and then opens to isolate the portion of the feeder to be islanded. It then sends a signal to the SMS, causing it to close the main SMS breaker and start supplying power to the community of Field.
Customers experience a short outage during the switching, after which the battery provides power until either the system is restored or the battery is depleted. On system restoration, the IntelliRupter detects voltage on the upstream side and signals the SMS. The SMS again isolates the battery, causing another momentary outage for the customers before the IntelliRupter closes, allowing power from the grid to flow to the community. Another signal to the SMS initiates recharging the battery.
Peak Shaving
During peak-shaving control mode, the SMS can control the batteries based on either a scheduled charge and discharge cycle or input setpoints to the controller. To optimize the life of the batteries, BC Hydro contemplated developing an advanced control algorithm to charge and discharge the batteries based on measured load at the Golden substation transformers. The design would call for the peak-shaving control setpoints to be calculated at the Golden substation and communicated to the battery sites with default local control patterns should the communications links fail.
The battery located in Golden would be discharged based on a certain load threshold being reached at the substation, with the battery at Field only discharged at a higher, more critical level. Developing the algorithm was complicated by the load profile of the Golden substation, which shows long, shallow peaks not easily covered by a battery discharge and charge cycle.
In addition, the algorithm had to account for the possibility of an outage on the distribution line between Golden and Field. In this event, it would be preferred that the Field battery be in a fully charged condition and able to support the community load for as long as possible until the distribution from Golden was restored. The algorithm also would need to recognize maximum and minimum states of charge for the batteries and the preferred charging and discharging profiles to maintain the life of the battery. A regular-forced deep discharge and charge would be scheduled to confirm battery health.
The extent of definition and development required for this algorithm and control function was estimated as beyond what was possible for the team, and the decision was made to revert to the default scheduled charge and discharge cycle.
Construction and Learning
Despite its best efforts, BC Hydro's inexperience with BESS and a lack of defined standards for required components meant extensive delays to the project. The team was forced to learn and innovate at every stage. In some cases, this meant backtracking or redefining when a process, procedure or standard thought to be suitable turned out to be inappropriate. Finally, 18 months after receiving the award for funding, construction began at both the Golden and Field sites.
By October 2011, the concrete foundations for the batteries had been poured at both Golden and Field, and the team expected to complete the installation before winter weather and snow conditions became too severe to continue. Construction of the battery enclosures was set to start when BC Hydro received notification from NGK that a NaS battery in Japan had caught fire. NGK recommended that BC Hydro suspend construction until the cause of the fire could be determined and the project was put on hold.
During the next six months, NGK and BC Hydro met several times to review the results of NGK's fire investigation and the proposed design modifications to mitigate future fire risk. BC Hydro now faced the prospect of another 12 months of delay before the batteries could be in service. A review of the business case indicated the risk of overcapacity at the Golden substation had diminished because of several other upgrades to the system, so the utility decided to reduce the installed battery capacity from 2 MW to 1 MW.
The 1-MW battery system would be installed at the Field site. This change meant revisiting the original contracts before remobilizing construction teams. During this time, NGK showed the utmost integrity in working through the changes and was able to deliver newly modified battery modules in time for the summer construction window.
The final challenge came in preparing the system for operation. BC Hydro had no prior experience to draw on and initially treated the system as an interconnection to an independent power producer. However, that only worked to the point of energizing the site. For ongoing operation, the site had to be treated more like a substation with established operating and maintenance orders.
In Service
BC Hydro's NaS battery installation is now in service in Field. The team will continue to monitor the performance over the life of the battery, however, the experience and knowledge gained through its deployment can be applied immediately.
Helen Whittaker ([email protected]) is manager of technology innovation in the office of the CTO at BC Hydro. She is responsible for BC Hydro's corporate technology road map and manages projects demonstrating new and emerging technologies. Whittaker holds a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom and a MBA degree from Simon Fraser University in Canada. She is a registered professional engineer in British Columbia and a certified project management professional.
Companies mentioned:
American Electric Power| www.aep.com
BC Hydro| www.bchydro.com
Natural Resources Canada| www.nrcan.gc.ca
NGK| www.ngk.co.jp
Quanta Technology| www.quanta-technology.com
S&C Electric| www.sandc.com


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Guest poem submitted by David W:
(Poem #1967) A Winter Ode to the Old Men of Lummus Park, Miami, Florida Risen from rented rooms, old ghosts Come back to haunt our parks by day, They crept up Fifth Street through the crowd, Unseeing and almost unseen, Halting before the shops for breath, Still proud, pretending to admire The fat hens dressed and hung for flies There, or perhaps the lone, dead fern Dressing the window of a small Hotel. Winter had blown them south-- How many? Twelve in Lummus Park I counted, shivering where they stood, A little thicket of thin trees, And more on benches, turning with The sun, wan heliotropes, all day. O you who wear against the breast The torturous flannel undervest Winter and summer, yet are cold, Poor cracked thermometers stuck now At zero everlastingly, Old men, bent like your walking sticks As with the pressure of some hand, Surely they must have thought you strong To lean on you so hard, so long! |
Donald Justice might be my favorite poet. It's difficult to say for sure, but I can say that his work has influenced me more than any other's. He is the "master of nostalgia", but I think that the intimacy and elegance of his work are the major allures for me. Here is one of my favorites. It isn't anthologized as much as some others. If anybody has ever used the word "heliotropes" with more effect, I haven't seen it. He slips that Latinate polysyllable in, but you might notice it's a little lonely. The simplicity of his language may be part of what makes it feel intimate. One of his more popular poems "Men At Forty" is similar in this respect. If you are interested, here is a short bio for Justice: http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/39 David. [Minstrels Links] Donald Justice: Poem #503: Anonymous Drawing Poem #1343: Poem to be read at 3am Poem #1647: Men at Forty


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Personal bankruptcies on the rise
Three years after the passing of new legislation aimed at reducing personal bankruptcies, 2008 filings approach the one-million mark.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In 2005, Congress passed a bill aimed at reducing the number of personal bankruptcy filings. But that was before a housing meltdown, a credit crunch and a global economic downturn.
In the midst of the financial crisis, more and more Americans are filing for bankruptcy. And experts say the numbers are likely to get worse.
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, which took effect three years ago this month, increased restrictions for Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings by applying a "means test" which would disqualify many consumers with higher incomes from discharging their debts.
Its supporters claimed the new rules would reign in abuses of bankruptcy laws, decongest the courts and educate consumers on money management. But after a steep dropoff immediately after the law took effect, bankruptcy filings are now on the rise again.
"The 2005 amendment was designed to make it more complex, more expensive and more difficult," said Professor Jack Williams, the American Banking Institute's resident scholar. But, "the people who thought they could reduce the number of filings have failed."
And the bill had other unintended results. Satisfying the means test became a difficult process, plus filers were also required to seek mandatory credit counseling and provide proof. All the additional paperwork further complicated the filing process, causing bankruptcy attorneys to raise their rates significantly.
"Bankruptcy became potentially more complex," said Stephen Elias, a bankruptcy attorney and author of "How To File For Chapter 7 Bankruptcy." "And with more paperwork and due diligence required, lawyers doubled their fees.
Personal bankruptcies filed in the federal courts totaled 934,009 from June 2007 to June 2008, up more than 28 percent from the 727,167 petitions filed in the same period a year earlier, according to the latest figures from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
The reasons for the sharp uptick? Rising consumer debt coupled with the mortgage meltdown left many consumers saddled with too much debt, Williams explained, and an increasing number turned to bankruptcy protection.
And with rising interest rates and a slowing economy, the number of filings will likely get even worse. "I expect bankruptcies in 2008 to exceed 1.2 million filings," Williams said. Next year, bankruptcy filings could increase by another 15% to 20%, he said, as personal income is outpaced by inflation.
In the weeks before the law went into effect, many cash-strapped consumers rushed to file, causing a record number of bankruptcies in 2005. But just after the law passed, the number of filings dropped off dramatically.
That's because, under the new law, it became harder for individuals to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7, which would let them discharge their debts and get what's known as a "fresh start."
In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, your assets, minus those exempted by your state, are liquidated and given to creditors, and many of your remaining debts are cancelled. Since many Chapter 7 filers don't have assets that qualify for liquidation, credit card companies and other creditors can get nothing.
The Bankruptcy Act aimed to push more debtors toward Chapter 13 filings, which require them to repay at least some of their debts within five years. This law was a boon for the credit card industry, which could recoup more losses from defaulting credit card customers under Chapter 13 filings.
But only those debtors with income above their state's median, who could also afford to pay 25 percent of their unsecured debt, were forced to file Chapter 13, Elias said. And few people actually fell into that category.
Chapter 7 filings still far outnumber Chapter 13. Chapter 7 filings totaled 615,748 through June, up nearly 37 percent from the year before. Meanwhile, Chapter 13 filings totaled 344,421, up 17 percent from the year-earlier period.
Experts agree that Chapter 7 is often the best option for consumers saddled with insurmountable debt. "The whole value of doing a personal bankruptcy is to discharge the debt," said Eric Tyson, author of "Personal Finance for Dummies." "The bottom line is that if you file for bankruptcy, your credit is trashed, it doesn't make any sense to do that if you're not going to get the relief."
The only benefit to filing Chapter 13, according to Williams, is the opportunity to hold onto your home. That's if your mortgage company is willing to work with you on a repayment plan.
For those considering it, experts warn that filing for bankruptcy should always be a last resort, since it can damage your credit for many years. And before seeking advice, be wary of any potential conflicts of interest from credit counseling agencies or bankruptcy lawyers that could potentially profit from your position, Tyson said. "I encourage people to get educated before they seek counseling or get an attorney."


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Water levels can be pain in the arse, especially when unnecessarily complex gameplay mechanics meet blurry, monotonous graphics. But that's not always the case. Truth is, there are water levels (or places where water plays a key role) that look really refreshing, relaxing, and that might even possess a special, eerie atmosphere (several parts of Final Fantasy X come to mind). Now those are fun to explore.
The Sea At Night In The Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker
Besaid Island and Bevelle (Final Fantasy X)
Stage 3 of Super Castlevania IV
Koopa Beach (Super Mario Kart)
Atlantica (Kingdom Hearts 2)
Undersea City (Folklore)
Riverside Race and World 2 in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
Isle Delfino (Super Mario Sunshine)
Southern Savage Coast in Stranglethorn Vale (World of Warcraft)
Hydrocity Zone (Sonic The Hedgehog 3)
Do you have pleasant memories of a good looking aquatic area? Reminisce in the comments below.
Sources: darkl3ad3r's LP, FF Wiki, firebirdonfire's LP, ClassicGameRoom, KH Wiki, MIKE65707LP, Antimazon's LP, MrRagetastic96's LP, WoWWiki, Sonic Wiki


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When the following Fall rolled around we made up for it by visiting as many pumpkin patches and festivals as we could. I think that you can see just how grateful we were to have him in these pictures.
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I used a mix of solid and printed paper to add color and a farm feel to the page. The three staggered photos add clean lines. The corrugated alpha and felt flower are from Jillibean Soup and match well with this line. I "hung" two photos with some twine and cute chipboard clothespin from Crate. And those tiny white letters are from Lily Bee - I keep using them on everything!
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for two Bedford County children missing since a fire burned down their home five days ago, saying there is no evidence they were victims of the blaze.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued the alert Friday evening. Investigators earlier in the day had returned to the scene of the Shelbyville house fire in which two bodies were found, tentatively identified as the children's step-grandparents.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says in a news release that multiple fire experts had gone through the debris and were unable to find evidence that 9-year-old Chloie Leverette and her half-brother, 7-year-old Gage Daniel, died in Sunday's fire.
The agency issued an endangered child alert for the children Wednesday after they could not find their remains.


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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
By: Alexandra Fuller;
Language: English
Quality: Good
Genre: Autobiography - Biography,
Pages: 238
Description: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author's mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its perfect light, even as the British Empire in which they both believed waned. They had everything, including two golden children - a girl and a boy. However, life became increasingly difficult and they moved to Rhodesia to work as farm managers. The previous farm manager had committed suicide. His ghost appeared at the foot of their bed and seemed to be trying to warn them of something. Shortly after this, one of their golden children died. Africa was no longer the playground of Nicola's childhood. They returned to England where the author was born before they returned to Rhodesia and to the civil war. The last part of the book sees the Fullers in their old age on a banana and fish farm in the Zambezi Valley. They had built their ramshackle dining room under the Tree of Forgetfulness. In local custom, this tree is the meeting place for villagers determined to resolve disputes. It is in the spirit of this Forgetfulness that Nicola finally forgot - but did not forgive - all her enemies including her daughter and the Apostle, a squatter who has taken up in her bananas with his seven wives and forty-nine children. Funny, tragic, terrifying, exotic and utterly unself-conscious, this is a story of survival and madness, love and war, passion and compassion.


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When you start the LispWorks IDE, by default a window known as the podium appears.
Figure 7.1 The LispWorks podium
The podium contains a menu bar, a toolbar, and a message pane that shows the active window; that is, the window on which commands chosen from the Works menu will have effect. The icons in the podium's toolbar access the Listener, Editor, Output Browser, Inspector, Class Browser, Generic Function Browser, Symbol Browser, Object Clipboard, Function Call Browser, System Browser, Compilation Conditions Browser, Search Files, Profiler, Tracer, Stepper, Window Browser, Process Browser, Shell and Application Builder tools. If you hold the mouse over these icons for a second, the corresponding tool name will appear as floating help text.
The IDE tools have most of these menu items in common with the podium.
The menu bar contains eight menus:
Users already familiar with Windows will notice that the File menu contains commands available in the File menu of other applications.
The toolbar provides quick access to some of the more common commands in the menus. LispWorks podium buttons and their functions shows each button, together with the menu command it represents.
Figure 7.2 LispWorks podium buttons and their functions
If you run the Windows version of LispWorks in the default Multiple Document Interface (MDI) mode, then the podium menus and tool icons are located at the top of the MDI window (see MDI Interface in LispWorks for Windows).
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From the Stage play - This video of Tyler Perry's "A Madea Christmas " was recorded in front of a live audience in Atlanta, GA. Starring Tyler Perry as "Madea". Also starring Cassi Davis, Cheryl Pepsii Riley, Chandra Currelley-Young, Tony Grant, Patrice Lovely, Tamar Davis, Maurice Lauchner, Alexis Jones, Zuri Craig, Jeffery Lewis, Shannon Williams When a wealthy family meets for Christmas at their posh Cape Cod estate, family arguments and secrets cause quite a stir. It will take the almighty Madea to save this Christmas and make it into a foot-stomping good time. Filled with great music and enough laughs to fill your holiday season with joy, A MADEA CHRISTMAS is a must-see. Technical Information
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Make Your Garden Work This Fall and Winter
The days feel like they're getting shorter by the minute (which, technically, they are), and the garden seems to be backsliding into laziness; with the exception of some squash, most of the beds are empty and crops are living out the last of their days. Does that really mean you have to spend the next four to six months buying produce from the store? Nope. There are tons of things you can grow in fall and winter to keep up a source of fresh, homegrown goodies.
Okay, I get it, kale is so trendy as to have reached social saturation point. But...give kale another shot, okay? For one thing, there are lots of different kale cultivars you might want to experiment with in your garden. It's also rich in vitamins and minerals, and it's a very robust winter crop, thriving in a variety of conditions. And guess what? Redbor kale, kamome red kale, and some others walk the tightrope between edible and ornamental; so you can get color in your garden and have a snack food!
Winter Lettuce
Lettuce can be grown at almost any time of the year, including winter. You'll need a cold frame, greenhouse, or warm area of the house with some sunlight if you live in a snowy area, but otherwise, have at it with cold-hardy varietals that like the winter months. When limited fresh produce is available, being able to pick your own crisp, crunchy lettuce is a wonderful thing.
If you're not growing your own herbs yet, you should be. They'll grow indoors, in windowboxes, on porches, and of course in the garden itself. Best of all, they're cold-hardy and produce year-round. Plant some thyme, rosemary, sage, tarragon, oregano, and other herbs to get them established and producing fresh seasonings for you! Things like chives and parsley can be grown through the spring and summer, and you can always cut and dry them for winter use.
Spinach and Orach
These related greens taste great and love winter weather. Orach is a rich maroon color, so it will provide a colorful splash in your winter garden (along with that red kale you planted). In fact, you might enjoy the look so much that you'll hire a handyman to build you some planters so you can grow it as an ornamental and an edible. Like lettuces, they can be harvested a few leaves at a time to keep the plant producing for weeks.
This plant produces flavorful leaves, and a nice root, to boot! You can grow it in cold weather, and it tends to mature extremely rapidly; once the root is big enough, you can pickle it, use it in stir-fries, eat it raw on salads, and more. You might as well sow some closely-related radishes while you're at it!
Here's a little secret: potatoes are really not very fussy. You can toss them in a five-gallon bucket with soil or straw as a growing medium and keep them producing all winter; when it gets cold and the weather is bad, just move them indoors or to a sheltered area on the porch. When the weather is sunny and more temperate, move them back outdoors again.
You'll have a tough time growing delicate summer crops like corn, thin-skinned squash, tomatoes, strawberries, and so forth without a commercial greenhouse and a willingness to spend a lot of money on heating and lighting to force your garden to grow, but the winter doesn't have to be grim by any means. (And remember, you can use drying and canning to preserve summer crops for winter eating!)
You'll want to make sure that your soil is very rich and well-amended, and that your plants are insulated. If you have a greenhouse, great. You can also make a cloche or makeshift greenhouse with old windows, hoops of PVC pipe with greenhouse plastic strung over them, or even milk jugs cut open to slide over growing plants to protect them from the cold. You may also want to check with your plumber about protecting your irrigation supply so the pipes don't freeze in the winter.
It doesn't take much to provide enough shelter for plants to thrive in your winter garden, and you'll be glad you have them when you see the depressing produce offerings at the store!
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Packaging The Wild: Kruger National Park
Flee at dawn from the sprawling metropolis that spreads from glass skyscrapers in Pretoria to millions of ramshackle tin shacks in Soweto.Drive east into the sunrise, past the tree-lined Joburg suburbs with high adobe walls and electric fences that keep modern living nice and compartmentalized for the lucky ones.Loop along rolling golden hills that could be California except for factories in the background spewing coal into the sky, or steel mines dredging the earth, or paper mills churning out toxic exhaust, or townships choking in thick paraffin clouds.
Get past all that industrialism and find again the primordial bush.It seems elusive in a South Africa struggling with the bloodshed of the past while racing towards the gilded future.Yet in Kruger National Park the wild still clings to survival, awaiting international consumers of prehistory in bite-sized morsels conveniently packaged in football-funded asphalt.
The path to Kruger twists through land where water vapor hangs above rivers like ghostly Mohawks, where the red granite cliffs paint the hills with a thousand faces, where ancient valleys harvest every hue of green.In the Kruger, brush grows thick.Scrub and brambles hide troops of elephants stomping over saplings, or rare rhinos rambling to the next watering hole…
…or giraffes tongue-wrestling spiny acacias and contorting their gangly bodies just to sip a drink.
There the veldt is home to strutting warthogs, cunning jackals, endless birds and herds of grazing impala and kudu and nyala and zebra.Always do the grazers keep one eye open for predators, for the wild teems with packs of hyenas, hides cheetahs in plain sight, and nurtures leopards hunting at dusk (check out one we saw! – link to come when it doesn't take over 12 hrs to upload a video).Even the big cats seem to prowl with open eyes, wary of the footprint of man.
South Africa seems destined to be sandwiched in change.Certainly, building a stable gateway into Africa will propel the regional economy with a pool of low-cost labor, a growing middle class and increasing global relevance.This economic growth will no doubt supercharge the fight against illiteracy, and political disparity, and pandemics like HIV/AIDS.
But courting development South Africa risks a tragic study in how the wild lands were lost.This is not an African challenge, it is a global challenge.Many nations – particularly developing economies – struggle with balancing the lust for growth with the fear of losing not only precious natural resources, but also a link to what humanity once was, back in the dreamtime.To this end, parks like Kruger are important conservation havens.When our children see Africa, these parks may be all that is left of a land lost in the undertow of progress, and help the next generation learn to live in awe of the wild.
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Netflix fires back in UK streaming war, says it has Fox TV shows too, plus Arrested Development
Just days after Lovefilm touted its TV and movie deal with 20th Century Fox, Netflix UK is promoting its own TV show additions from the studio, including an exclusive on The League. While we're not sure how well a comedy about Fantasy (North American) Football will go over across the pond, it's also adding Modern Family, Lie to Me, Sons of Anarchy and more, and points out it already has series like 24 and Prison Break that Lovefilm is just now adding. The highest profile piece however, is Netflix's exclusive hold on a new season of the old Fox show Arrested Development, set to premiere in 2013. The press release with the full list is after the break, contrast and compare your options to see which streaming service (if either) is a good fit.
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New Season of "Arrested Development" Coming Exclusively to Netflix UK and Ireland; Netflix to Offer Members More Complete Seasons of Great Twentieth Century Fox TV Shows
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) and Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, today announced that Netflix will be the exclusive UK and Ireland home to the highly anticipated new season of the Fox cult comedy hit, "Arrested Development" to premiere early 2013. Seasons one through three are currently available to members in the UK and Ireland.
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Netflix will also be adding to its UK and Ireland service additional Twentieth Century Fox comedy series including the multiple Emmy® Award-winning hit "Modern Family," and exclusively, "The League," an ensemble comedy about fantasy football and everything else in life, featuring an outrageously funny young cast from the U.S. and Canada.
More Twentieth Century Fox dramatic series are coming to Netflix as well. They include complete seasons of "Lie to Me," the cerebral whodunit starring British actor Tim Roth; "Sons of Anarchy," a cynical but wildly entertaining look into the world of California motorcycle clubs; and finally, "The Killing," the critically acclaimed remake of the Danish noir police drama "Forbrydelsen."
Since the service launched in January, Netflix members in the UK and Ireland have been enjoying complete Twentieth Century Fox series such as "24" and "Prison Break" and more recently have been exclusively able to watch "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
"Arrested Development is one of the finest American comedies in TV history and we are incredibly excited to bring it back for British and Irish fans," said Ted Sarandos, Netflix Chief Content Officer. "As today's announcement with Twentieth Century Fox clearly shows, we're continuing to add all kinds of great content for our UK and Ireland to enjoy when and how they want it."
One of Time Magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME," the tale of the formerly wealthy, deeply eccentric Bluth clan aired for three seasons, 2003-2006, on the Fox Broadcasting network and was honored with the Emmy® award for Outstanding Comedy Series after its first season on the air.
"We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Netflix by bringing the groundbreaking new season of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT to fans in the UK. This deal continues to build on prior deals by providing Netflix UK with more of our iconic shows and exposing our content to an even broader audience," said Gina Brogi, EVP of Worldwide Pay Television and Subscription Video on Demand for Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution.
"Arrested Development" had its final broadcast on February 10, 2006 and concerned Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) and his eccentric family comprised of his son George Michael (Michael Cera), his father George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), his mother Lucille (Jessica Walter), his brothers George Oscar Bluth II (Will Arnett), Buster Bluth (Tony Hale) and sister Lindsay Funke (Portia de Rossi), and Lindsay's husband Tobias (David Cross) and their daughter Maeby (Alia Shawkat).
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With more than 25 million streaming members in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is the world's leading internet subscription service for enjoying movies and TV programs. For about US$7.99 a month, Netflix members can instantly watch movies and TV programs streamed over the internet to PCs, Macs and TVs. Among the large and expanding base of devices streaming from Netflix are the Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Sony PS3 consoles; an array of Blu-ray disc players, internet-connected TVs, home theatre systems, digital video recorders and internet video players; Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, as well as Apple TV and Google TV. In all, more than 800 devices that stream from Netflix are available. For additional information, visit www.netflix.com. Follow Netflix on Facebook and Twitter.
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ICHEON, South Korea -- The intense grief that Kim II-nam has felt every day since his father died 27 years ago led to a startling decision: He dug up his father's grave, cremated his bones and paid $870 to have the ashes transformed into gem-like beads.
<< In this Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011 photo, Kim Il-nam, a retired high school principal, displays beads made from his father's ashes during an interview in Icheon, South Korea. Kim dug up his father's grave, cremated his bones and paid $870 to have the ashes transformed into gemlike beads. "Whenever I look at these beads, I consider them to be my father and I remember the good old days with him," Kim said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Kim is not alone in his desire to keep a loved one close — even in death. Changes in traditional South Korean beliefs about cherishing ancestors and a huge increase in cremation have led to a handful of niche businesses that cater to those who see honoring an urn filled with ashes as an imperfect way of mourning.
"Whenever I look at these beads, I consider them to be my father and I remember the good old days with him," a gray-haired Kim, 69, told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
"As a little boy, I often fell asleep while being hugged by my father," he says, sobbing and gazing at the blue-green beads, which sit on a silk cloth in a ceramic pot on a table.
A decade ago, six out of every 10 South Koreans who died were buried, a practice in line with traditional Confucian instructions to respect dead ancestors and visit their graves regularly. Since then there has been a big shift in South Koreans' thinking about the handling of the deceased, in part, officials say, because of Western influence and a strong government push for citizens of this small, densely populated country to consider cremation as a way to save space.
The results have been dramatic: The cremation rate last year was so high that only 3 in 10 were buried.
About 500 people have turned their loved ones' ashes into Buddhist-style beads at Bonhyang, a company based in Icheon, just south of Seoul. It and several other ashes-to-beads companies say they have seen steady growth in their business in recent years.
Bonhyang founder and CEO Bae Jae-yul says the beads allow people to keep their relatives close to them, wherever they go. He also says stored ashes can rot, a claim denied by crematoriums. "Our beads are clean; they don't become moldy and don't go off and smell bad," he says.
Bae uses ultrahigh temperature to melt cremated ashes until they are crystalized and can be turned into beads in a 90-minute process. The colors are mostly blue-green but sometimes pink, purple and black.
The ashes of one person can produce four to five cups of beads, Bae says, although the ashes of young people have a higher bone density that can yield up to eight cups of beads.
Bae isn't the first to use the technology in South Korea.
A meditation organization obtained similar bead-making technology in the late 1990s, but it was imperfect and wasn't long in the public eye, Bae says. He says he saw the potential, bought the technology and spent several years refining the process.
Bae believes his company has an important edge over rivals. His beads are made purely from human remains with no added minerals, which he says other companies blend in.
Bonhyang's chief rival, MiKwang, says added minerals help produce more rounded, gemlike beads in a faster time and at lower temperatures.
Mikwang officials say they have more business than Bonhyang but refuse to disclose their profits. Bae also refused to disclose business details. No special government license is necessary to start an ashes-to-beads business, according to the Health Ministry, which says individuals have the right to determine how to dispose of loved ones' remains.
The fledgling industry has drawn some criticism.
"They are only interested in making business profits," Do Young-hoon, a researcher on South Korea's funeral culture, says. "The highest level of respect for the dearly departed is to let them go back to nature."
Businesses turning the dead into beads were launched in the United States, Europe and Japan in the past, but were mostly unsuccessful because few people regarded it as a normal way to dispose of dead bodies, says Park Tae-ho, chief researcher at the Korea National Council for Cremation Promotion, a Seoul-based civic group.
Bae's customer Kim, a retired high school principal, says it took some time to persuade his family to accept his plan to honor his father "because they thought a ghost could come to our home along with these beads."
Every morning, Kim, a Catholic, prays to his father's beads, which he keeps on a bookshelf. He takes some beads with him in his car and has also given some to his five daughters.
Despite loyal clients like Kim, Bae says he is still years away from seeing a profit, partly because of the emergence of copycats. But he still feels confident about his business when he sees his customers' delighted reaction to the product.
"People are moved," Bae says, "and I feel it's something worthwhile. I'm confident this business will flourish considerably someday."
Bae says seven Buddhist temples and one Catholic church lease his bead-making machines. He is also negotiating deals over his technology with dozens of other religious organizations in South Korea, and with businesses in China, Thailand, Japan and the Philippines.
Ashes-to-beads businesses could also get a boost when South Koreans take advantage of next year's quadrennial leap month in the lunar calendar to conduct cremations. There's a traditional belief that the ghosts that supervise humans go on vacation during a leap month, so many people in South Korea don't feel sinful for relocating graves or digging up their relatives for cremation.
Kim plans to exhume his mother and make beads from her remains next year.
"I've also told my daughters I want my ashes turned into beads," he says.
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If you wish to become a certified teacher in technical programs at a technical center, comprehensive high school or trade academy, Western Michigan University's occupational education studies program was designed specifically for you.
Completed in partnership with 14 Michigan community colleges, WMU's occupational education studies program is approved by the Michigan State Board of Education and North Central Accreditation for Teacher Education. It leads to a State of Michigan Provisional Certificate with a vocational endorsement.
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As an occupational education studies student at WMU, you will be required to complete a full-semester internship under the mentorship of selected teachers in schools approved by the University. The internship is designed to prepare you not only for your role as a classroom teacher, but as a professional studying your own teaching practice. Both school and WMU faculty will work together closely to support and assist you as you progress through the semester.
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Suppresion of Scientific Enquiry
From the Boston Globe today:
"We do not understand the natural internal variability of climate
change" is one of Lindzen's many heresies, along with such zingers as
`"the Arctic was as warm or warmer in 1940," "the evidence so far
suggests that the Greenland ice sheet is actually growing on average,"
and "Alpine glaciers have been retreating since the early 19th
century, and were advancing for several centuries before that. Since
about 1970, many of the glaciers have stopped retreating and some are
now advancing again. And, frankly, we don't know why."When
Lindzen published similar views in The Wall Street Journal this spring,
environmentalist Laurie David, the wife of comedian Larry David,
immediately branded him a "shill." She resurrected a shopworn slur
first directed against Lindzen by former Globe writer Ross Gelbspan,
who called Lindzen a "hood ornament" for the fossil fuels industry in
a 1995 article in Harper's Magazine....For no apparent reason, the state of California, Environmental
Defense, and the Natural Resources Defense Council have dragged Lindzen
and about 15 other global- warming skeptics into a lawsuit over auto-
emissions standards. California et al . have asked the auto companies
to cough up any and all communications they have had with Lindzen and
his colleagues, whose research has been cited in court documents."We know that General Motors has been paying for this fake science exactly as the tobacco companies
did," says ED attorney Jim Marston. If Marston has a scintilla of
evidence that Lindzen has been trafficking in fake science, he should
present it to the MIT provost's office. Otherwise, he should shut up."This
is the criminalization of opposition to global warming," says Lindzen,
who adds he has never communicated with the auto companies involved in
the lawsuit. Of course Lindzen isn't a fake scientist, he's an
inconvenient scientist. No wonder you're not supposed to listen to him.
My position on global warming and the state of global warming science is here.


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'How I CRASHED my bank, stole PINs with a touch-tone phone'
Security bod's boast harks back to 1980s phreaking era
Miscreants can crash or infiltrate banks and help desks' touch-tone and voice-controlled phone systems with a single call, a security researcher warns.
Rahul Sasi, who works for iSight Partners, said audio processing algorithms in office telephone networks and speech-driven command software are liable to crash when bombarded with unusual data in so-called fuzzing attacks.
Certain DTMF (Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency) signals can cause these private branch exchanges (PBX) and interactive voice response (IVR) systems to raise exceptions and bail out, much in the same way that unexpected input data can knacker applications running on a desktop computer or server.
PBX and IVR machines are often used to run phone banking, call centres and other interactive telephone systems. Given the appropriate DTMF input, it may be possible to crash backend application servers or convince them to cough up sensitive information. Repeating the trick to bring down a machine effectively launches a denial-of-service attack on the phone line as a paper [PDF] by Sasi on the topic explained:
If an attacker could trigger an exception in DTMF-processing algorithms, then they could crash the entire application server by making a single phone call, causing the entire phone banking to become inaccessible, or no calls from the customer goes through. One such denial of service could cause a lot of panic and the amount of damage would be pretty huge. We will be demonstrating a lot of amusing remote DTMF attacks on phone banking, tele-voting, and customer support applications using DTMF.
Sasi (@fb1h2s) delivered his findings at the Hack in the Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is due to repeat his research at the Nullcon Delhi conference later this month and at Ruxcon in Melbourne, Australia, in October.
The paper, How I DOS'ed My Bank, reckons the attack technique can be refined to lift data from targeted systems: "We would be able to extract sensitive information about the application's hosted environment with these sorts of bugs. Since applications that use DTMF algorithms are mainly phone-based, it was possible to extract output in the form of audio data."
It sounds completely infeasible, yet Sasi claimed it was possible to extract customer PINs from an unnamed Indian bank, SC Magazine reports. Systems spew out error messages in response to invalid inputs that leak potentially useful information to attackers, as illustrated in a video posted on Vimeo.
Sasi said banks and call centres need to wake up to the issue, and realise that voice-based systems are far from invulnerable to attack.
"No banks or organisations are testing IVRs because they think the systems are secure, but in reality they are not," he said according to SC Magazine. "No firewall or CAPTCHAs monitor voice traffic."
The content of attacks is restricted to characters available within DTMF signalling: 16 characters limited to the digits 0-9, #, *, a, b, c, and d. Susi is developing a fuzzing program that combines different DTMF input algorithms at variable frequencies. ®


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Can I Pray With a Muslim If We're Addressing Our Prayers to a Common Creator?
Can I pray with a Muslim if we're addressing our prayers to a common Creator?
Well of course you can. The question is whether you should. And I think that it's not helpful, by and large, either personally or at some ecumenical gathering, to do that without clarifying the differences.
In other words, you can pray with anybody at any time, but if the praying creates the impression that you're all going through the same mediator in the same way to the same deity, understood in the same way, you're lying! And you shouldn't! It's very unhelpful and misleading to people not to make clear that you're going to pray in Jesus' name.
I'll give you an example. For 10 or 15 years I belonged to a clergy group that was all over the map, including Jewish. So it included liberal protestants, a few of us evangelicals (two, maybe), and Jewish. It was really awkward to know what to do with this fellowship. "Fellowship" would be an unhelpful description of this.
One day I was asked to pray. It was usually a breakfast meeting, and I noticed how they had been praying: they never prayed in Jesus' name. And so I did pray in Jesus' name. I didn't say, "In Jesus' name we pray," because there was the rabbi sitting three people over, and he wasn't praying in Jesus' name. So I said, "In Jesus' name I pray, Amen."
He was very offended. He told me later, "I'm very offended you prayed in Jesus' name." I said, "Well look, it's not right for you to dictate the way you pray on me, that I have to pray that way!" The assumption was that we're all able to use "God" and leave Jesus out, but that's not true! I can only get to God through Jesus, and I want to make that clear to them. And I'm not putting that to them. They don't have to pray in Jesus' name when I say "I."
So I think it's good at ecumenical gatherings and personal smaller gatherings just to look a Muslim right in the eye and say, "Let's just clarify for each other how we understand God. I believe God is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He's the triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, equal in persons. The Son has come into the world to die for our sins. The only reason I have any reason as a sinner to go into the presence of God and ask for anything or praise him is because of the blood of Christ covering my sins. So when I go to God, I say 'In Jesus' name' to signify that my Mediator is my only hope of connecting with God.
"I know you don't see it that way. I just want you to know, that's the way that I can only come to God. So when I pray, I will be praying that way, I will be understanding it that way, and I'll be using the name of Jesus that way. And I know you won't.
"If you want to pray in the same room with me, that's OK. I'll pray for you, that you will love Jesus. And I suppose you'll pray for me, that I will see Mohammed as the true prophet and Jesus as a prophet like him, but not more."
As long as you're clear, you can do anything with anybody, almost. (That's an overstatement.)


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The Texas Medical Association (TMA) may be caught between a rock -- Gov. Rick Perry and his legislative posse -- and a hard place: its members, regarding advanced directives for pregnant women in Texas.
"I'm concerned about the position of the TMA," Robert Luedecke, MD, an anesthesiologist in San Antonio, Texas, told MedPage Today after reading a statement made by Robert Tenery, MD, during an interview with MedPage Today on the Marlise Munoz case.
Tenery had said since Munoz had not updated her Advanced Directive upon learning she was pregnant, it was unusable under the circumstances.
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Luedecke said he believes that the Texas law is "unjust." He also believes the majority of TMA members would take offense at it.
"The opinion of most Texas physicians would be that patients, their families, and their doctors are the ones that should be making medical decisions. To have a law that interferes, further complicates things, and I don't see that it is of any benefit at all," Luedecke said.
Luedecke suggested that the TMA is in a tight spot with the Texas legislature, and probably selected a physician who would support the law to avoid conflict.
In a press release about the upcoming 2013 Texas legislative session, the then president of the TMA, Michael E. Speer, MD, said, "It's time to put patients before politics."
That didn't keep Gov. Perry from tangling with the TMA. In September, he refused to expand Medicaid coverage to Texas' residents, roughly 25% of which are uninsured, against the wishes of the majority of the TMA's house of delegates. And he also recalled the legislative body to pass abortion restrictions after the infamous Wendy Davis filibuster.
The TMA did not take an official position on abortion at the time; however, the current president, Stephen L. Brotherton, MD, of Fort Worth, Texas, did write a letter to the House State Affairs Committee stating, "This [abortion] bill includes determinations that should be made by the medical community and science, not by the legislature."
And when pressed for comment on the Munoz case, the TMA -- the largest state medical society in the US -- referred MedPage Today to the Texas Catholic Conference and the Texas Hospital Association (THA) spokesperson, Lance Lunsford.
After TMA offered those suggestions, former TMA president, Tenery, contacted MedPage Today explaining that the organization asked him to provide comment, but Brotherton, now denies Tenery was a TMA spokesperson. Brotherton told Luedecke in an email that MedPage Today was "mistaken."
"I could see why the TMA is dodging," Luedecke said.
Brotherton subsequently told MedPage Today, "The local media noted that 'the doctors' have refused the family's request, implying that they are acting independently of the John Smith Peter Hospital's administrators or legal counsel. I have asked those reporters to note the interlocking responsibility and authority of the physicians with these others. Otherwise, I have no comment, and currently do not anticipate having any."
Updating Advanced Directives
The case, THA's Lunsford told MedPage Today, "underscores the importance of having an advanced directive that is written and on file for members of your family. While this would not completely account for resolution in some cases where state law would supersede an Advanced Directive, it nonetheless provides less gray area at a time where a family has to come to terms with their grief as important decisions have to be made."
Luedecke countered: "People have important life events all the time. What if the Advanced Directive was invalidated when a person gets married, or changes jobs? [If that's the case], there's no reason to have an Advanced Directive."
If Munoz had survived the stroke, she would have had the option to abort. Even under the new, stringent, abortion laws in Texas, an abortion would have technically been an option up to 20 weeks into the pregnancy.
None of the six Texas healthcare professionals interviewed for this story knew that the Texas Advanced Directive form had a pregnancy clause that renders it null and void once the patient has "been diagnosed as pregnant," regardless of the patient's wishes.
And Now the Courts
"This issue needs to go to court," Ellen Yasmeen Sadoun, MD, a practicing family physician outside of Houston, Texas, told MedPage Today. According to the Fort-Worth's Star-Telegram, the family has filed a lawsuit against the hospital to take Munoz off of life support immediately.
"Going against a person's living will and the family's desire to take her off life support isn't ethical at all," Sadoun, who has recently been studying healthcare ethics and healthcare law for her MPH, said.
Certified Nurse-Midwife, Barbara Orcutt, of Flagstaff, Ariz., asserts that Tenery should not have referred to this pregnancy as viable until 24-weeks, "It's not medically correct," Orcutt told MedPage Today. "The premise of Roe was that abortion is not allowed when the fetus is viable, which is earliest at 24-weeks."
And Nancy Forsyth, MSN, RN, NNP-BC, a neonatal nurse practitioner in Lewes, Delaware, told MedPage Today she agrees, "14-weeks is a long way from being considered viable."
Orcutt sees the Advanced Directive laws in Texas as inhumane, "If she [Munoz] had survived the stroke, she would have had lots of options. She could have had an abortion, if she had lived. Many [pregnant] women do survive the stroke. It's not a totally rare thing in pregnancy."


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One summer day when my family was out for a Sunday drive, we stopped at a shrine at the neighboring parish of St. Joseph in Manchester, Mo. The old church had a well, perhaps the first I had ever seen. Dad held me up so I could peer down, but I could see no bottom. I cupped my ear and heard only silence. Dad gave me a rock to drop into it, and I waited for what seemed forever before I heard a muted splash of water, way down deep. Mystery, meaning, depth, a hint of the beyond, life-giving water—all seemed evident at that well.
Seventeen years later, in summer 1973, I visited Ireland as a 23-year-old seminarian. When a friend and I walked, rode bikes and buses through lush villages, and hitchhiked back roads, I found them again—the wells. But I was not alone in sensing mystery and meaning in them. The Irish called them "holy wells."
"Why are you surprised?" asked the parish priest in Kilbeggan, as he hosted us for tea and brown bread. "Think of Jacob's well or the Samaritan woman at the well in the Bible," he went on. "Wells have always been places of meaning, mystery, the beyond, life itself."
Never, though, has my appreciation for the power of a well been deeper than it was last May when I traveled to Ethiopia on a trip sponsored by Catholic Relief Services. Our destination was at the end of a rough ride of two hours south of the capital, Addis Ababa. The heroic local bishop, Abraham Desta, was waiting for us in Meki, where he invited us in to freshen up and take a cup of potent Ethiopian coffee (coffee was first brewed here) and then packed us back into our four-wheel drive vehicle for another dusty ride through 15 miles of desolate fields.
"Simply put, there's no surface water here in Ethiopia," my brave brother bishop explained to me and my companions, Joseph Kurtz, the archbishop of Louisville; Carolyn Woo, dean of the school of business at Notre Dame; and Art Wigchers, a benefactor of C.R.S. "We've only got two main rivers in the whole country," he went on. "The rains are completely unreliable. Our people are always only one dry season away from famine. The frustration is that water is abundant way down deep, but our people can't dig that far to get to it."
That explained the carcasses of cows and sheep we saw through the clouds of dust, the drooping crops, and the emaciated, parched people who stared at us from the cracked fields. That explained why C.R.S. was so committed to digging wells all over Ethiopia; $45,000 does the job, we were told.
As we neared the site of the C.R.S. project, there they were: hundreds of jubilant, applauding, beaming, hopeful folks. They had all come to the new C.R.S. well. We prayed, we hugged, we blessed the well and the pump. And I got to throw the switch!
Rising from deep down, a rushing swirl came through the silence and burst through: the clean, clear water from the well. The stream spread...cisterns brimmed over...the thirsty cattle sniffed the water and started to trot toward us...the children splashed...the jugs were filled up...the tears of jubilation flowed...the villagers danced...the hoses carrying water to the surrounding fields and villages swelled up. "I've never seen water come up from the ground," whispered one of the elders to me as Bishop Abraham translated.
"Now our children can go to school," another exclaimed. The bishop explained that the nearest river was a three-and-a-half-hour trek away, so the children spent seven hours every day to get the essential water. They could hardly go to school.
"Our crops will be green again," beamed another villager. "Our cattle and sheep will live."
"Our babies will not get sick, and we can soothe and bathe our elders as they prepare to die."
No wonder Jesus referred to himself as "living water." No wonder C.R.S. is committed to digging wells. There is indeed mystery, meaning, depth, a hint of the beyond, life itself, in a well.


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WASHINGTON, May 27, 2011 — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen met with Pakistani leaders today in an effort to shore up relations between the United States and Pakistan.
Clinton and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff met in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari, Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani and Intelligence Chief Lt. Gen. Ahmad Pasha.
Clinton described the meetings as "very extensive, open, frank and constructive discussions." The relationship has been strained by the U.S. operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden on May 1.
Mullen stressed "the criticality" of the relationship between Pakistan and the United States, of the shared sense of urgency that leaders in both nations feel and of moving the relationship forward.
"I think we all realize the challenges under which this relationship now labors, but now is not the time for retreat or for recrimination," the chairman said during a news conference at the U.S. embassy. "Now is the time for action and closer coordination — for more cooperation, not less [and] for the friendship to get stronger, not weaker." Clinton said the visit comes at an important time because bin Laden's death marks a turning point in the struggle against extremists.
"Osama bin Laden is dead, but al-Qaida and its syndicate of terror remain a serious threat to us both," she said. "There is momentum toward political reconciliation in Afghanistan, but the insurgency continues to operate from safe havens here in Pakistan."
The United States has been clear and consistent about its expectations in the relationship with Pakistan, the secretary said. She said both countries want to defeat violent extremism, end the conflict in Afghanistan and ensure a secure, stable, democratic, prosperous future for Pakistan. "We expect to work closely with the government and the people of Pakistan to achieve those ends," she said.
Many terrorists have sought refuge in Pakistan and have used the country as a planning center, the secretary noted. "From here, they have targeted innocent people all over the world — in Pakistan, Afghanistan and far beyond," Clinton said. "But no nation has sacrificed more lives in this struggle against violent extremism than Pakistan has. Extremists have killed women and children, blown up mosques and markets, and shown no regard for human life or dignity."
The United States and Pakistan have worked together to take on these terrorists, Clinton said, and the governments and militaries have cooperated and shared intelligence often. "Today, we discussed in even greater detail cooperation to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida, and to drive them from Pakistan and the region," the secretary said. "We will do our part and we look to the government of Pakistan to take decisive steps in the days ahead. Joint action against al-Qaida and its affiliates will make Pakistan, America and the world safer and more secure."
Clinton stressed there is absolutely no evidence that anyone at the highest levels of the Pakistani government knew Osama bin Laden was living in Abbottabad.
Pakistan has an interest in a safe, stable Afghanistan, and the United States and Pakistan must work together to achieve that goal, Clinton said, adding that the United States is working with Afghanistan to split the Taliban from al-Qaida and reconcile insurgents who meet certain criteria.
"Today, we discussed Pakistan's perspective on Afghanistan and how it can support the international community's efforts there," Clinton said. "We look forward to putting those words into action and seeing momentum toward a political resolution."
Bin Laden's death has caused terrorists to lash out in Pakistan, and the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban continue to collude with al-Qaida, the chairman said.
"To be sure, these groups are weaker — much weaker — and not just as a result of this raid, but as a result of the extraordinary efforts expended by both coalition forces and the Pakistani military over the last several years," Mullen said. "There is a much larger struggle afoot, and I would be remiss if I did not applaud the bravery and the skill with which Pakistani troops have engaged the enemy in that struggle, losing thousands of their number in the process."
The fight must continue, and Pakistani and American service members must continue to cooperate, Mullen said.
"For our part, my military took many risks going after bin Laden, risks to the lives of our men and women in uniform, risks to civilian causalities and to collateral damage," Mullen said. "We took the risk of being wrong about what we thought we knew of the killer's whereabouts. And yes, in our desire to preserve secrecy, we incurred a certain risk in our relationships with other nations in the region.
"But this particular relationship with Pakistan is too critical," he added, "and now is too critical a time to allow whatever differences we may still have with one another impede the progress we must still make together."
The chairman acknowledged that he realizes U.S. and Pakistani service members must continue to build trust — trust that has been tested by the bin Laden raid.
"But I do leave here with a sense that General Kayani and other Pakistani military leaders share my commitment to that task and share my desire to look for ways to advance the relationship," he said. "There's no better time for that sort of partnership than right now."
U.S. Department of Defense
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The final weekend of March Madness is next, and the Buckeyes will be there.
Jared Sullinger recovered from first-half foul trouble to score 19 points and grab seven rebounds, helping Ohio State beat top-seeded Syracuse 77-70 on Saturday to advance to the Final Four in New Orleans. The second-seeded Buckeyes will play the winner of Sunday's Midwest Regional final between North Carolina and Kansas.
"We're not going down to New Orleans for a vacation. It's a business trip," said Sullinger, who picked up his second foul 6 minutes into the game and did not return the rest of the half. "These guys have played without me before, so they know what they have to do."
Deshaun Thomas scored 14 with nine rebounds for Ohio State (31-7), which led by eight points with 59 seconds to play and held on after the Orange cut it to three. The Buckeyes made 13 of 14 free throws in the final 68 seconds and 31 of 42 from the line in all.
Ohio State is making its first trip to the Final Four since 2007, when it lost in the national championship game to Florida. They had lost in the regional semifinals in each of the past two seasons, and Matta wasn't even sure they would make it that far after a series of unimpressive practices.
When the Buckeyes, who spent five weeks as the No. 2 team in the nation, closed out February with three defeats in five games -- including a home loss to Wisconsin on Feb. 26 -- Matta had more reason to worry.
But he got the response he was hoping for.
"That loss opened their eyes and said, `Hey, maybe we're not as good as we think we are,"' Matta said. "Maybe it got us pointed in the right direction."
Brandon Triche scored 15 points and Baye Keita had 10 rebounds for Syracuse (34-3). The Orange were hoping for a return trip to New Orleans, where they won their only national championship in 2003.
In a tightly officiated game that left Sullinger on the bench in foul trouble for most of the first half and Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim not-quite muzzled after picking up a technical foul, it came down to free throws. Syracuse was called for 29 fouls -- its most in more than three years -- despite playing its usual 2-3 zone.
Boeheim didn't like several of them.
He picked up a technical for objecting to a foul in the first half, and he escaped another in the second half despite shouting his profane complaint across the court. At one point, he turned to Jeff Hathaway, the chairman of the NCAA selection committee who was sitting near the Syracuse bench, and made his case in person.
Afterward, Boeheim gave a terse "No comment" when asked if the officials hurt the flow of the game. A statement from the officiating crew chief said Boeheim was given a technical for being out of the coaching box and gesturing about a call.
"We're not going to blame it on the refs," said guard Scoop Jardine, who had 14 points and six assists. "I think we had a chance to win the game no matter what, with the refs or without them giving us any calls."
The Orange went to the line 25 times, making 20 foul shots.
The frequent whistles left both teams struggling to get into a groove in the first half -- there were only four baskets in the last 9:30. That seemed to be good news for Ohio State, which managed to stay with the No. 1 seed despite getting only 6 minutes from Sullinger, the star of the Buckeyes' East Regional semifinal win over Cincinnati.
"We got Sullinger in foul trouble early and we didn't take advantage of it," Boeheim said. "You know when he comes back in he's going to be difficult, and he was."
Syracuse was already without 7-footer Fab Melo, who missed the tournament with academic issues, and replacement Rakeem Christmas picked up two quick fouls early in the second half to leave him with four.
Ohio State opened a 46-36 lead with under 14 minutes to play. Syracuse scored eight of the next nine points to make it a one-point game, but the Orange could never get back in the lead.
They trailed by eight with 59 seconds left and cut it to three, but they needed the Buckeyes to miss free throws, and that didn't happen.
The loss ended a tumultuous season for Syracuse that began with accusations by two former ball boys that they were sexually abused in the 1980s by Bernie Fine, a longtime Syracuse assistant coach. Boeheim vigorously defended him, but later walked back his support in the face of new information. Fine, who was fired Nov. 27, has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing.
The school also revealed this month that it had self-reported possible violations of its internal drug policy by members of previous teams; the NCAA is investigating.
But the biggest hit might have been the loss of Melo, Syracuse's leading rebounder who also averaged 5.8 points per game. Even without him, the Orange beat North Carolina-Asheville and Kansas State to earn a trip to Boston, then survived a pair of potential game-winners to beat Wisconsin 64-63 on Thursday and advance to the regional final.
Ohio State reached the round of eight by beating Loyola of Maryland and then Gonzaga before winning a Battle of the Buckeye State against Cincinnati in Boston on Thursday night. The Buckeyes were one of four teams from Ohio in the round of 16, and the only ones to make it to the regional finals.
Ohio State is also the last remaining team from the Big Ten, which placed six teams in the NCAA tournament and four in the round of 16.


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Last year I was fortunate to be one of the lucky 16 to attend the first try { harder } experimental conference / coder retreat in Nottingham. As mentioned in my blog post at the time it was an incredible 4-day event in which I learnt so much from some of the most talented and experienced people in the flash community.
The event was such a success that not only is it going to run again this year (which I hope very much to attend) but there is also an additional "levelup" conference happening next week. The idea behind the levelup is to provide businesses and freelancers with an intensive 4-day training and motoring session. The mentors are hand picked from the previous try harder members and so represent some of the best in their field.
What's more Stray, the primary organiser of the event has just announced that Jetbrains the makers of the popular IntelliJ IDEA IDE are going to be sponsoring the event meaning each paying participant will receive a licence to use the IDE!
Interested? Head over to the levelup site and sign up: https://www.tryharder.org.uk/level-up-2012/


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The U.S. Army soldier charged with sending reams of government secrets to WikiLeaks is offering to plead guilty to some less serious offenses.
Pfc. Bradley Manning's civilian defense attorney, David Coombs, revealed the offer Wednesday during a pretrial hearing that continues Thursday.
Coombs says Manning isn't pleading guilty to the offenses charged by the government. He's offering to take responsibility for less serious offenses that are encapsulated within the charged crimes.
Even if the court accepts the offer, military prosecutors could still try to prove Manning guilty of the more serious charges. They include aiding the enemy, punishable by life imprisonment.
Coombs also says Manning has elected to be tried by a military judge, not a jury, at his trial in February.


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Assuming ZFC is consistent, then by downward Löwenheim–Skolem, there is a countable model (M,$\in$) of ZFC. Since the universe M is countable, we may as well think of it as actually being the set of natural numbers, so $\in$ will be some binary relation on the natural numbers.
Can such a relation ever be computable?
Partial results
One can show that the class of binary relations $R$ on the natural numbers such that $(\mathbb{N},R) \models ZFC$ forms a $\Pi_0^1$ class, and will be nonempty so long as ZFC is consistent. This already gives us some interesting results. For example, by the low basis theorem, there is a low $R$ such that $(\mathbb{N},R) \models ZFC$. But I have been unable to determine whether such a function can be made computable; the best I can do is show that if such a function is computable, then there is no effective way of finding, given a finite set D of natural numbers, the element n such that D={m : mRn}.